VERY important: do NOT give Discord this information.
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@rootwyrm has anyone looked into Pearson VUE's collection of data a bit more? Seems like they want blanket permission for facial recognition data, copy of IDs, and lots of other sensitive information
@thepwnicorn I haven't looked into any facial recognition stuff. But Pearson at least has arguably legitimate verification and anti-cheating purposes, and has been doing it for decades. (You've never been able to take an in-person test without showing ID, which does get copied, for example.)
It's a very different thing from demanding a passport so you can view memes with the word 'fuck' in them.
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VERY important: do NOT give Discord this information. DO NOT. It goes to multiple third-parties, who link it to a lot of sensitive personal information, and more than one of has already leaked people's PII. They also have lied multiple times about selfie verification not leaving your computer and deleting images of sensitive IDs.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out
And no surprise, there's more than a few idiots who are eagerly trying to carry water for Discord claiming that this is a "good" thing and that Discord never lied and even if there's unequivocal proof they lied it's all made up.
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VERY important: do NOT give Discord this information. DO NOT. It goes to multiple third-parties, who link it to a lot of sensitive personal information, and more than one of has already leaked people's PII. They also have lied multiple times about selfie verification not leaving your computer and deleting images of sensitive IDs.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out
I didn't recall which site asked me for a facial ID a few weeks ago, but I just googled "old man" and held my camera up to a pic I liked. I was let in. Maybe I can finally set up a discord account if they've stopped requiring my goddamn phone number.
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I didn't recall which site asked me for a facial ID a few weeks ago, but I just googled "old man" and held my camera up to a pic I liked. I was let in. Maybe I can finally set up a discord account if they've stopped requiring my goddamn phone number.
@NuclearOatmeal nope, you will provide enough information to them so that they and their disclosed and undisclosed third-party providers can definitively tie your account to a real person.
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@NuclearOatmeal nope, you will provide enough information to them so that they and their disclosed and undisclosed third-party providers can definitively tie your account to a real person.
Well, then. Fuckem.
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And no surprise, there's more than a few idiots who are eagerly trying to carry water for Discord claiming that this is a "good" thing and that Discord never lied and even if there's unequivocal proof they lied it's all made up.
And I just confirmed that the two servers I am in which are LGBTQIA+ focused, both of which prohibit any form of nudity or adult images?
Both are labeled as 'adult only' servers.
In case you had any doubts that this was purely about surveillance and censorship.
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@thepwnicorn I haven't looked into any facial recognition stuff. But Pearson at least has arguably legitimate verification and anti-cheating purposes, and has been doing it for decades. (You've never been able to take an in-person test without showing ID, which does get copied, for example.)
It's a very different thing from demanding a passport so you can view memes with the word 'fuck' in them.
@rootwyrm eh, I get where you are coming from, but you could do that without collecting all that information. I don't particularly care who will be the source of the leak when it happens eventually
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And no surprise, there's more than a few idiots who are eagerly trying to carry water for Discord claiming that this is a "good" thing and that Discord never lied and even if there's unequivocal proof they lied it's all made up.
@rootwyrm The amount of people already yelling at me in Discord for saying "Oh I'm not doing that. If they require it I guess that's goodbye forever, friends!" is staggering but also not surprising.
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VERY important: do NOT give Discord this information. DO NOT. It goes to multiple third-parties, who link it to a lot of sensitive personal information, and more than one of has already leaked people's PII. They also have lied multiple times about selfie verification not leaving your computer and deleting images of sensitive IDs.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out
@rootwyrm i mean of course they dont delete PII, they want you to give it to them *explicitly* so they use the information to hurt you; .. so they can call the cops or whatever the fuck on you if you do something they dont like ..
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@thepwnicorn I haven't looked into any facial recognition stuff. But Pearson at least has arguably legitimate verification and anti-cheating purposes, and has been doing it for decades. (You've never been able to take an in-person test without showing ID, which does get copied, for example.)
It's a very different thing from demanding a passport so you can view memes with the word 'fuck' in them.
@rootwyrm @thepwnicorn 'this other form of mass survailence and bullshit legitmized for this other vaigue reason is totally fine and okay as opposed to this other one doing the exact same thing'
oh fuck off
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